Job Market in Iran

The employment rate in Iran stood at 36.6% (23.43 million) in the last financial year’s fourth quarter (Dec. 22, 2022-March 20), unchanged compared with the same quarter of the year before,…

The Statistical Center of Iran has put labor force participation rate — the proportion of the population of ages 15 and above that is economically active either employed or looking for a job —…

Iran’s labor market suffers from a very low participation of women, data released by the Statistical Center of Iran confirm. Women’s economic participation rate stood at only 13.8% in the first…

The services sector employed 51.9% of the Iranian employed population (12.03 million) in the fourth quarter of last Iranian year (Dec. 22, 2021-March 20), 1.5% higher than in the corresponding…

The Statistical Center of Iran put labor force participation rate — the proportion of the population of ages 15 and above that is economically active either employed or looking for a job — at 40…

The Statistical Center of Iran has put the Q1 (March 21-June 21) labor force participation rate — the proportion of the population of ages 15 and above that is economically active either…

Twenty-five percent of youth householders (those between 15 and 25 years) fell into the first income decile (those with the lowest income) in the year ending March 2020, Welfare Department of…

The services sector’s share of the Iranian employed population reached 49% with 11.48 million in the third quarter of the current fiscal year (Sept. 22-Dec. 20, 2020), 1% less than the…

The number of people who worked two jobs at the same time rose from 726,000 in the year ending March 2018 to 834,000 in the year ending March 2020, latest data released by the Statistical Center…

Sixty percent of jobs in Iran lack health and retirement benefits, which are also not entitled to government support offered to businesses during the coronavirus crisis.

Labor force participation rate—the proportion of the population of ages 15 and above that is economically active either employed or looking for a job—stood at 44.1% in the last Iranian year (…

The employment rate stood at 37.8% (23.43 million) in the fourth quarter of the current Iranian year (Dec. 22, 2019-March 19), down 0.4% compared with the same quarter of the last Iranian year,…

The Statistical Center of Iran has put labor force participation rate—the proportion of the population of ages 15 and above that is economically active either employed or looking for job—in the…

The government will allocate 50,000 billion rials ($305 million) to Unemployment Insurance Fund to support those who have lost their jobs amid the outbreak of coronavirus, an official with the…

The Statistical Center of Iran has put labor force participation rate in the third quarter of the current Iranian year (Sept. 23-Dec. 21, 2019) at 44.3% or 27.33 million people, registering a 0.…

The services sector employed 50% of the Iranian employed population (12.22 million) in the third quarter of the current Iranian year (Sept. 23-Dec. 21, 2019), 0.1% more than the corresponding…

One of the main objectives of the government in the next Iranian year (starting March 20, 2020) is to boost domestic production and employment.  As one of the appendixes to the newly…

The overall unemployment rate in Iran, the proportion of total jobless population of ages 10 years and above, stood at 10.8% in the first quarter of the current Iranian year (March 21-June 21),…

Of the 23.8 million people employed in Iran in the last fiscal year (ended March 20, 2019), 12.9 million or 54.2% stayed for fewer than 10 years in their main jobs.  Job duration for…

The Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare surveyed 1.9 million unemployed, from the nearly 3.3 million unemployed in the last fiscal year (2018-19), who held a job for 10 years and…

The Iranian economy generated 321,000 jobs in the first quarter of the current Iranian year (March 21-June 21), indicating a 0.1% growth compared with the same period of last year, the…

Iran’s Information and Communications Ministry unveiled its long-awaited Startup Action Plan late Wednesday, which aims to create 68,000 jobs and give a boost to local tech firms.

Fewer than 4% of workers in Iran enjoy job security, the employees’ representative in Supreme Labor Council said. 

Rural communities accounted for 25% of all new jobs created in Iran in the last fiscal year (March 2018-19).  According to Deputy Minister of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare Isa…

An environmental working group is considering proposals to allow flexible working hours for white-collar employees and two weeks of winter holiday for students, as part of a bid to cut air…